Extensions of discrete Helly theorems for boxes
Combinatorics
2024-04-23 v1
Abstract
We prove extensions of Halman's discrete Helly theorem for axis-parallel boxes in . Halman's theorem says that, given a set in , if is a finite family of axis-parallel boxes such that the intersection of any contains a point of , then the intersection of contains a point of . We prove colorful, fractional, and quantitative versions of Halman's theorem. For the fractional versions, it is enough to check that many -tuples of the family contain points of . Among the colorful versions we include variants where the coloring condition is replaced by an arbitrary matroid. Our results generalize beyond axis-parallel boxes to -convex sets.
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@article{arxiv.2404.14308,
title = {Extensions of discrete Helly theorems for boxes},
author = {Timothy Edwards and Pablo Soberón},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14308},
year = {2024}
}
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13 pages, 1 figure